I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s a bad thing. It’s happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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